tucker: collecting insects. Q5 



2. Femora wholly black, tibiae and metatarsi more or less banded 



with red notatus Wied. 



Femora black with preapical red band, tibige and metatarsi mainly 

 red 3 



3. Second and following joints of tarsi banded with black 4 



Tarsal joints wholly red or pitchy black, gibbosity of face very 



large, legs extra stout callidus Will. 



4. Red on femora confined to preapical band, tarsal joints annulated 



with black annulipes Macq. 



Red on femora extending over whole length of posterior sur- 

 face delusus, n. var. 



5. Femora entirely black, length of body only 10 to 12. 5 mm. , mess3, n. sp. 

 Femora with red markings 6 



6. Red on femora confined to preapical band prospectus, n. sp. 



Red on femora extending over whole length of posterior surface, 



prairiensis, n. sp. 

 Asilus tenebrosus Will. Colorado, Colorado Springs; July. 



Family Dolichopodid^. 



Psilopodinus caudatus Wied. Kansas, Douglas county; May, June, July.— 

 Colorado, .Colorado Springs ; August. Four anterior femora of 

 male are yellow on distal portion for nearly one-fourth their 

 length, more noticeable than with scobinator Loew, and tips 

 of hind tibige are less infuscated than with that species. 

 Both sexes, 

 melampus Loew. Colorado, Colorado Springs; July and August. 



Denver; August, 

 patibulatus Say. Kansas, Douglas county; July, August, Sep- 

 tember, 

 scobinator Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June, twilight. 



One male. New to Kansas, 

 sipho Say. Kansas, Douglas county; May; June; June, twi- 

 light; July; July, twilight; August. Sedgwick county; 

 August. 

 Diaphorus leucostoma Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June, twilight; July. 

 —Colorado, Colorado Springs; July, August. Denver; August, 

 spectabilis Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June, twilight; July, 

 twilight; August. New to Kansas. 

 Asyndetus syntormoides Wheeler. Kansas, Douglas county; July. New to 



the Kansas list. 

 Chrysotus aura tus Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June. New to Kansas, 

 longimanus Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; July. New to Kan- 

 sas.— Colorado, Colorado Springs; August, 

 obliquus Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June, twilight; July; 



August. New to Kansas.— Colorado, Denver; August. 

 paUipes Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; July, twilight. New to 



Kansas, 

 picticornis Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; August. New to 



Kansas, 

 vividus Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; May. New to Kansas. 



